"An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor."

“Politics is a continuation of economics by other means”

“When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.”

Source : "11 Little Victories To Celebrate, Just Because" By Kate Bratskeir, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2013.

“The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent,”

Source : "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

“A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Nov 11, 2010

“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2012

“Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.”